Lionel Messi
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- 2022 Panini Prizm FIFA World Cup Qatar — Lionel Messi Gold Breakaway /10, #7, PSA 9
- Gold Breakaway: the dotted gold disco prizm parallel, limited to just 10 copies — this is 05/10
- The flagship Prizm release of Messi's World Cup coronation — he lifted the trophy weeks after the set dropped
- Card-back moment: the through ball that beat everyone vs Uruguay in the Oct 2021 qualifier (3-0)
- Championship-year base parallel of the 8× Ballon d'Or winner and Argentina's all-time captain
- PSA 9 slab — the most liquid, universally recognized grading standard for World Cup Prizm
- Player
- Lionel Messi
- Team
- -
- Nation
- Argentina
- Year
- 2022
- Brand
- Panini
- Card #
- #7
- Parallel
- Gold Breakaway
- Serial
- 05/10
- Attributes
- Refractor
- Grading
- PSA 9
- Availability
- Available
- Listed
- 2026-09-17
Why this one matters.
“Lionel Messi's 2022 Panini Prizm FIFA World Cup card is, by market consensus, the flagship card of the tournament in which he finally became a world champion — and this is its Gold Breakaway parallel, #7, numbered 05/10 and slabbed PSA 9 MINT. Breakaway is Prizm's dotted disco refractor, and the gold version sits one tier below the Black 1/1 at the top of the parallel ladder: only ten copies exist. The card was released in the build-up to Qatar 2022, frozen in the two-star Argentina kit, and history did the rest within weeks — the 35-year-old captain produced seven goals and three assists, scored twice in the legendary 3-3 final against France and lifted the World Cup with the Golden Ball, turning every parallel of this base card into a championship-year relic overnight. The back recalls a qualifying moment from October 10, 2021 against Uruguay: Messi sliced a through ball into the box that eluded his streaking teammate, slipped past a defender and the keeper, and bounced into the net to open a 3-0 win — the pass so perfectly weighted it functioned as a shot, exactly the blend of vision and timing the card describes. Unlike the ultra-high-end Eminence 1/1, this is the tradeable, universally recognized cornerstone of the Messi World Cup market: a single-digit-mintage gold prizm, PSA-graded, from the most collected football set of the decade.”
